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We say thanks and good luck to recent UIUC grad Riley Popp, who is moving to Chicago to start a PhD program at Northwestern University! There was plenty of long boarding in his honor.

New collaborative paper on dual-GWAS and population genomics of host-symbiont interactions was just released at Molecular Ecology! Check up on it!

It’s been a busy summer in the greenhouse this year! Clover and Rhizobium and Methylobacterium and Medicago and Sinorhizobium and soybean and Colletotrichum – oh my!

Heath KD, Batstone RT, CerĂ³n Romero M, McMullen II JG. 2022. MGEs as the MVPs of Partner Quality Variation in Legume-Rhizobium Symbiosis. mBio, online. FIG 1 Levels of horizontal mobility lead to nested interactions among the key players in the symbiosis between leguminous plants, nodulating …

New commentary out in mBio! Read More »

Rebecca starts her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology at McMaster. Wish her luck!